common mizzpelled words

alot - A common misspelling of a lot.

There - Location
Their - plural possessive
They're - contraction of "they are"

Two - one plus one
Too - as in also, or "in excess"
To - all other uses

Where - location question
We're - contraction of "we are"

Weather - climate
Whether - introduces a possiblity or choice
Wether - castrated sheep, probably didn't have a choice in that.

Don't forget

Lose-to misplace an item
Loose-without tension

Won't-a contraction of will not.
Want-to desire

Get a life the lot of you petty minded aspiring Shakespeare's.

It sure takes the cake when American's think they can teach English.

abba wrote:

Get a life the lot of you petty minded aspiring Shakespeare's.

Don't you mean "Shakespeares"? The apostrophe
would be appropriate to indicate Shakespeare's
sonnets.

abba wrote:

It sure takes the cake when American's think they can teach English.

Why did you use an apostrophe when meaning
"Americans", as in more than one "American"?

I presume it is an Australian quirk.

Dont forget the ever popular:

Then-
Than-

abba wrote:

It sure takes the cake when American's think they can teach English.

I have a BA in English Literature and a full minor in Linguistics. What are your qualifications, outside of lifting a can of Fosters? If you have anything useful to offer to enlighten us then please post them. If you're just posting to "Yank Bash" then please make effort to at least be amusing.

And Australians take a bigger piece of the cake when they think that they can speak English.

abba wrote:

It sure takes the cake when American's think they can teach English.

How about to and too? I'm always messing those up when I'm writing. Same goes for chose and choose.

I struggle with "Who/Whom and Who's/Whoes" I did a search and found an explanation that makes sense to me.

Who/Whom

The distinction between "who" and "whom" is basically simple: "who" is the subject form of this pronoun and "whom" is the object form. "Who was wearing that awful dress at the Academy Awards banquet?" is correct because "who" is the subject of the sentence. "The MC was so startled by the neckline that he forgot to whom he was supposed to give the Oscar" is correct because "whom" is the object of the preposition "to."

WHO'S/WHOSE

This is one of those cases where it is important to remember that possessive pronouns never take apostrophes, even though possessive nouns do (see it's/its). "Who's" always and forever means only "who is," as in "Who's that guy with the droopy moustache?" or " who has," as in "Who's been eating my porridge?" "Whose" is the possessive form of "who" and is used as follows: "Whose dirty socks are these on the breakfast table?"

From: http://www.demeistre.com/jjs56799/en/prog/sub...
or
http://tinyurl.com/yunf7s

Aw...Nutz, all proper political pundits should ponder pointless punctuation...

George Miller Jr wrote:

How about to and too? I'm always messing those up when I'm writing. Same goes for chose and choose.

Great question, I pause with these words as well. I did a search and found...

choose -(verb) to make a choice or selection.
chose - past tense of verb choose.
choice -(noun) choosing; selection.

From: http://www.esldesk.com/common-errors-in-engli...

abba wrote:

It sure takes the cake when American's think they can teach English.

LOL!!!

What about Taco, shouldn't a small Taco be called small Taco instead of Taquito...

Don't forget Burrito...

Aunty Alias wrote:

<quoted text>
Great question, I pause with these words as well. I did a search and found...
choose -(verb) to make a choice or selection.
chose - past tense of verb choose.
choice -(noun) choosing; selection.
From: http://www.esldesk.com/common-errors-in-engli...

Thank you muchly.

What about using the word impact as a verb?

a little off topic... words that don't exist and I'm sick of seeing:

conversate
irregardless